LABScon 2024

Security Research in Real Time | September 18-21, 2024

LABScon is an intimate event for the world’s top cybersecurity minds to gather, share cutting-edge research, and push the envelope of threat landscape understanding.
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Meet the speakers

Dr Cristina Cifuentes

Oracle Software Assurance

Max Smeets

Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich

Kim Zetter

Alex Matrosov

Binarly

Program Committee

Julia Knecht

Netflix

Julia Knecht is Application Security Engineering Manager at Netflix - her team takes an engineering-first approach to securing applications and services at scale and speed. Julia has specialized in product and application security; building teams and programs that enable the business via secure paved roads, strong environmental insights and excellent security-developer experience. Julia previously managed Product Security and Privacy Architecture at Adobe.

Vicente Diaz

Google

Vicente Diaz is a specialist in Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting, and recently joined the VirusTotal team in Google as Threat Intelligence Strategist. He holds a degree in Computer Science and an MsC in Artificial Intelligence. He was e-crime manager in S21sec for 5 years and deputy director for EU in Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis team for almost 10 years. He was responsible for the APT Intelligence Reporting service.

Fahmida Rashid

DarkReading

Fahmida Rashid is an award-winning technology journalist with experience covering nearly every aspect of the technology industry with a primary focus on cybersecurity and privacy. Fahmida specializes in data and pattern analysis and the introduction of data science and data journalism opportunities. She is currently a features editor at DarkReading, covering security for an enterprise IT audience.

Perri Adams

DARPA

Ms. Perri Adams joined DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O) as a program manager in June 2022. Her research interests include vulnerability discovery and remediation, secure software development, reverse engineering, program analysis, and automation in cyberspace operations.

Thomas Rid

Johns Hopkins University

Thomas Rid is Professor of Strategic Studies and founding director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. From April to July 2022 he also is a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. Rid is the author of the acclaimed Active Measures, a sweeping history of disinformation. His commentary has appeared in The New York Times and the Washington Post, and he has testified in front of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as well as in the German Bundestag and the UK Parliament.

Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade

SentinelLabs

Juan Andrés is AVP of Research for SentinelLabs and Distinguished Resident Fellow for Threat Intelligence at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Alperovitch Institute. Before joining SentinelOne, JAGS led multiple threat intelligence teams at Google, Chronicle, was a Principal Security Researcher at GReAT focusing on targeted attacks, and worked as Senior Cybersecurity and National Security Advisor to the Government of Ecuador. In 2023, JAGS was presented with a Presidential Volunteer Service Award for furthering U.S. cyber preparedness. His research work is the subject of two permanent exhibits at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

Chris St. Myers

SentinelOne

Chris is the Deputy Threat Research Manager for SentinelLabs. His career spans three decades, during which he's held several significant roles, including Head of Threat Research at Stairwell, Research Team Lead at Chronicle (Google Cloud), Manager of Espionage Intelligence at iDefense, and Lead Researcher at Rackspace.

Costin Raiu

Art of Noh

Costin specializes in analyzing advanced persistent threats and high-level malware attacks. He led the team that researched the inner workings of Stuxnet, Duqu, Carbanak, Lazarus, BlueNoroff, Moonlight Maze and the Equation Group. Costin has over 24 years of experience in anti-virus technologies and security research. He is a member of the Virus Bulletin Technical Advisory Board, a member of the Computer AntiVirus Researchers’ Organization (CARO) and a reporter for the Wildlist Organization International. Some of his hobbies include chess, photography and Science Fiction literature.